HERD 1, 2, 3 feeds on Broadcastify

[joen7xxx]

I see three feeds in the San Diego County feed area called HERD 1, 2 and 3. they are always offline and there is no information describing them. What are these feeds?

thanks

Joe

 

[norcalscan]

It's an outfit that got a contract or funding from PG&E to place remote receivers around the state that can stream fire dispatch/command traffic back to PGE's Hazard Awareness Warning Center for situational awareness, basically an all-hazards Ops Center. It's related to a mid-state WISP so they have connections and know-how to get to remote mountain tops; and are placed in some significant radio sites already. I think the audio network is 24/7 and "private" to PGE but if a major incident pops off, they'll co-stream the incident on one of these HERD broadcastify streams. The non-profit Watch Duty does the same thing with remote receivers to support their internal ops, using code and AI for parsing a lot of actionable data, but also turns around and streams the audio publicly 24/7 to broadcastify where they see gaps in coverage from other contributors to support the public as best possible.

ABC story from 2019 on PGE's HAWC in San Ramon. The story has a video where it shows (at 14 seconds) a monitor with a bunch of broadcastify windows all stacked (must not have known the Dashboard feature .)

 

[Mikek]

Here's some info, and a few photos of their radio trailers...

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[norcalscan]

Thanks for the link to the pics. Somewhat shocked those trailers are what PG&E accepts as state-of-the-art, especially for a remote listening solution. Looks like 99% solar and 1% discone on a mast into a raspberry pi streaming audio, and either a cell or WISP uplink. But PG&E Comms are run by PG&E IT, so that makes sense. IT/Comms folks who truly cross that bridge and "get it" are rare.